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1. NEOMORPHASTEB TAUSMANI Perrler. 



. \mani Phrrier, Ann. sci. nut., vol. 19, art. 8, 1885, fig. 22. 

 V,,. euslichus Bladen, 1889, p. 438, pi. 66, figs, 3, 4; pi. 68, figs. 9, 10. 



tauter monoecus Perrier, Mem. soc. zool. France, vol. 4, 1891, p. 262; R<5s campag. sci. 

 le Monaco, fasc. 11, 1890, p. 28, pi. 2, figs. 2, 2a; pi. 3, figs. 3, 3a. 



Bay of Biscay; Azores; off the coast of Morocco; southwest of Ireland; 400 to 

 2,000 meters, exceptionally to 5,413 meters. (Mortensen, 1927.) 



2. NEOMORPHASTER FORCIPATUS Verrill. 



Veomorphaster foreiptttus Verrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 17, 1894, p. 269; Amer. 

 Journ. Sci., vol. 49, 1895, p. 206. 



Off Georges Bank and south of Marthas Vineyard, 852 to 990 fathoms. 



1 have examined No. 11131, U.S.N.M., listed by Verrill as one of his types. 

 Verrill writes (1894, p. 270) that there are "attached to the adambulacral spines and 

 in the ventral interradial spaces many acute, ovate, forcipate [straight] pediceliariae, 

 often mixed with crossed pediceliariae and scarcely exceeding the latter in siz3." 

 I find no pediceliariae whatsoever attached to the adambulacral spines which are two 

 to each plate. On the furrow face of alternate adambulacral plates are single small 

 straight pediceliariae or groups of two and three. I find no actinal interradial 

 straight pediceliariae but crossed ones larger than the lateral and dorsal. This 

 species appears to bo a typical Neomorphaster. 



The broad carinals are flanked by a single series of much narrower dorsolaterals; 

 these are fo'lowed by superomarginals as broad as the carinals; then a row of in- 

 feromarginals about as broad as the dorsolaterals; then a row of actinals, on the 

 side of ray proximally and forming the ventrolateral border distally. Between 

 t hese and the adambulacrals are two short rows of ventral actinals, the outer scarcely 

 reaching middle of ray, and each plate bearing three or two spines, as do the distal 

 plates of the lateral actinal series (which distally defines the actinolateral margin of 

 ray). 



LIST OF SPECIES AND VARIETAL NAMES APPLIED TO ASTERIINAE, NOTASTE- 

 RIINAE, AND NEOMORPHASTERINAE OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE 



In the first column is given the species and original describer; in the second 

 column, the original genus and date; in the third column, the genus to which the 

 species has been assigned in the foregoing summary. 



Valid species and forma names are in roman; synonyms in italics. 



acanthostoma Verrill Asterias, 1909 Evasterias. 



acervata Stimpson Asterias, 1862 Leptasterias. 



aequalis Stimpson Asterias, 1862 Leptasterias. 



alaskensis Verrill Asterias, 1909 Leptasterias. 



albertensis Verrill Parasterias, 1914 Asterias. 



albulus Stimpson .... Asteracanthion, 1853 Stephanasterias. 



alvoiilata Verrill Evasterias, 1914 Evasterias. 



ambigUUfl Farran Stichaster, 1913 Stichastrella. 



amurensis Liitken Asterias, 1871 Asterias. 



anomala Verrill Allasterias, 1909 Asterias. 



arctica Murdoch Asterias, 1885 Leptasterias. 



